Twins

Twins are Gemini: Castor and Pollux Apollo and Artemis (Sky God, Moon Goddess) Geb and Nut, were Egypt's Earth and Sky Romulus and Remus, Yama and Yami In Ireland, Holly King, Oak King Waxed and waned with the Seasons In Bulgaria, the mother of twins Could protect from disease and demons, Could bring down the moon and milk her Professor Arnold Klopper, reproduction specialist Son of an Afrikaner policeman went with his father On rounds in rural areas, witnessing illness and poverty. Graduated, anti-racist, joined the NHS Loved the Scottish countryside, a good debate, a dram. I was one of his patients, my system Coaxed by pioneering medicine Research science used to good effect I brought forth twins, a healthy boy and girl Vera Kreigal & her twin Olga Five years old, were packed into cattle trucks Where the dead lay down like paving stones Raw materials for SS Captain Josef Mengele They said his lab had photographs of eyes Like butterflies pinned in a case Like stamps, franked, stuck in a book 732 pairs of twins, their organs harvested Without the kindness of anaesthesia Or killed with an injection to the heart